CVE-2008-5245

xine-lib before 1.1.15 performs V4L video frame preallocation before
ascertaining the required length, which has unknown impact and attack
vectors, possibly related to a buffer overflow in the
open_video_capture_device function in src/input/input_v4l.c.

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Assigned (20081125)

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